Yakimbi Recruitment Questionnaire

Please complete the questionnaire below. You may take as much space as needed without
worrying about the document formatting. The information you provide is confidential and
will not be shared with any third party.
 Personal Details

Name:

Email:

Tel:

Skype id:

Nationality:

NRIC / Passport
Number:

Country of residence:

Date:

Expected Salary:

For Office Use

Interviewed By:

Interview Date/Location:

Interviewer’s Comments:
 Educational details
(Please only provide the details of the highest education you have attended.)

Name and location of

educational institute:

Start date:

End date:

Major:

Grade:

Why did you select this

particular school?

How was your education

financed?

Generally, what were your

college years like?

What sort of curriculum did

you focus on?

What sort of campus

activities did you get
involved in?

How would you describe

your study habits during
college?

Detail any work experiences

you have had during
college.
What were important career
influences?

What were high points

during your college years?

What were low points (or

least enjoyable
occurrences)?

What were your career

thoughts toward the end of
college? What were the
options considered?
 Work History (1 of 3, last or current job)
Employer and location:

Title:

Start date:

End date:

Type of business:

Salary (Starting):

Salary (Final):

Nature of work:

Responsibilities /
Accountabilities:

Successes and
accomplishments:

Failures / Mistakes:

What did you like most

about your job?

What did you least enjoy?

Reasons for leaving or

desiring to change:

Name and title of immediate

supervisor:
Permission to contact?
(YES/NO. If yes, please provide
contact details)

His/her strengths?

His/her shortcomings?

Best guess as to what

he/she really felt at that
time were your strengths?

Best guess as to what

he/she really felt at that
time were your weaker
points?

Overall performance of your

supervisor?
 Work History (2 of 3, previous jobs)

Employer and location:

Title:

Start date:

End date:

Type of business:

Salary (Starting):

Salary (Final):

Nature of work:

Responsibilities /
Accountabilities:

Successes and
accomplishments:

Failures / Mistakes:

What did you like most

about your job?

What did you least enjoy?

Reasons for leaving or

desiring to change:

Name and title of immediate

supervisor:
Permission to contact?
(YES/NO. If yes, please provide
contact details)

His/her strengths?

His/her shortcomings?

Best guess as to what

he/she really felt at that
time were your strengths?

Best guess as to what

he/she really felt at that
time were your weaker
points?

Overall performance of your

supervisor?
 Work History (3 of 3, previous jobs)

Employer and location:

Title:

Start date:

End date:

Type of business:

Salary (Starting):

Salary (Final):

Nature of work:

Responsibilities /
Accountabilities:

Successes and
accomplishments:

Failures / Mistakes:

What did you like most

about your job?

What did you least enjoy?

Reasons for leaving or

desiring to change:

Name and title of immediate

supervisor:
Permission to contact?
(YES/NO. If yes, please provide
contact details)

His/her strengths?

His/her shortcomings?

Best guess as to what

he/she really felt at that
time were your strengths?

Best guess as to what

he/she really felt at that
time were your weaker
points?

Overall performance of your

supervisor?
 Plans and goals for the future

What are you looking for in

your next job?

What are other job

possibilities you have at this
moment and how do you feel
about each one?

What about 5 or 10 years

down the road; where do you
hope to be by then, career-
wise?

What do you view as

advantages of joining
Yakimbi?

What do you view as possible

disadvantages of joining
Yakimbi?
 Management
(Only to be completed by applicants for a management role)

How would you describe your

management philosophy and
style?

What would you suppose

your subordinates feel are
your strengths from their
point of view?

What would you suppose

your subordinates feel are
your weaknesses from their
point of view?

In what ways might you want

to modify your approach to
dealing with subordinates?

Please give a paragraph

about each subordinate in
your previous job, indicating
title, length of employment,
strengths, shortcomings, and
overall performance.
 Intellectual characteristics

How would you describe your

problem analysis skills?

Do people generally regard

you as one who diligently
pursues every detail or do
you tend to be more broad
brush?

What analytic approaches do

you use?

How would you describe your

decision-making approach?
Decisive & quick / more
thorough but sometimes too
slow? Intuitive or facts-
based? Do you involve many
or few people?

What are a couple of the most

difficult decisions you made
recently?

What are a couple of the best

decisions you made in the
past year?

What are a couple of the

worst decisions you made in
the past year?

What maxims do you live by?

Are you more comfortable
dealing with concrete,
tangible, short-term or more
abstract, conceptual, long-
term issues?

How creative are you? What

are the best examples of your
creativity?

Do you consider yourself a

more visionary or more
pragmatic thinker? Explain
why.

How do you rate yourself in

public speaking?

How would you describe your

role in meetings?

Describe the last time you put

your “foot in your mouth”.

How would you describe your

writing style in comparison
with others’ styles?
 Personal characteristics

What motivates you?

How many hours per week

have you worked, on the
average, during the past
year?

Describe the pace at which

you work – fast, slow, or
moderate.

Who have been your major

career influences, and why?

Are you better at initiating a

lot of things or hammering
out results for fewer things?

In what specific ways have

you changed an organization
the most (in terms of
direction, results, policies)?

How would you describe your

work habits?

How well organized are you;

what do you do to be
organized and what, if
anything, do you feel you
ought to do to be better
organized?
Describe a situation that did
not go as well as planned.
What would you have done
differently?

How much supervision do

you want or need?

What are the most important

lessons you have learnt in
your career (be specific with
respect to when, where, what,
etc)?

How do you handle yourself

under stress and pressure?

Describe yourself in terms of

emotional control; what sorts
of things irritate you the most
or get you down?

How many times have you

“lost your cool” in the past
couple of months?

What sort of mood swings do

you experience – how high
are the highs, how low are
the lows, and why?

Describe a situation in which

you were the most angry you
have been in years.
How have you changed
during the recent years?

What sorts of organization

changes have you found
easiest and most difficult to
accept?

What changes in your

approach would be most
appropriate in your next job?

What actions would you take

in the first week, should you
join Yakimbi?

Describe a situation in which

the pressures to compromise
your integrity were the
strongest you have ever felt.
 Interpersonal relations

How would you rate yourself

in enthusiasm and charisma?

How would you describe your

level of assertiveness?

Describe situations in which

your negotiation skills proved
effective and ineffective.

Describe the most difficult

person with whom you have
had to work.

Describe a situation in which

you felt others were wrong
and you were right.

How aware are you of

political forces that may
affect your performance?
Give some examples of the
most difficult political
situations in which you have
been involved.